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A team is much more than just a group of people and hence there is a significant difference between group thinking and team thinking. The times have changed and so have the approaches to business solutions. Team building has gained a lot of emphases lately and managers are putting significant efforts to harness the potential of individuals and channelize them towards achieving a common objective. One of the major responsibilities of managers or team leaders today, while  building a high-performing team , is to inculcate and encourage team-thinking to facilitate better decisions and results. Team thinking is essentially collaborative thinking, focussed on a common goal, where every member of the team is willing to listen carefully and consider views and options for making the best decision for clients, organization, and individuals. Why Organizations Require Team Thinking Team thinking is crucial for building an efficient team. Basically, team thinking is about valuing the opi

OVERVIEW From driverless cars, trucks, and delivery drones, from kiosks to chatbots, the number of jobs being displaced by  AI, machine learning, and automation  continues to grow. Even industries such as banking and finance, law, medicine, training and education, staffed by highly skilled professionals whose jobs had been considered immune from automation, are being disrupted. The harsh reality is: no industry is safe, including yours. The good news is that you can have the best of both worlds, in which people and computers play to their strengths, and offset each other’s weaknesses. In this webinar, you’ll take your first steps in identifying these strengths and weaknesses, and formulate an initial strategy for implementing the workforce of the future in your organization today. This strategy will also include how to make AI work for your business, setting up plans for workforce training, along with a system of governance that will reduce risks associated with increas

6 Steps to Fix an Underperforming Team

OVERVIEW You know what it feels like to be on a great team. There's trust, collaboration, caring, and incredible energy. You want to look forwarding to going to work everyday. On the other hand, you also know what it feels like to be on a dysfunctional team. It's exhausting. You feel like you're swimming against an incoming tide all the time. On some teams the failures are painfully obvious. On others they are nuanced and not easily identifiable. In either case, you need to know the specific steps to transform a dysfunctional team into a high-functioning, collaborative, and supportive team. That's what this webinar will address. Learn how to manage a failing team and how todiagnose the 5 primary reasons teams fail . Learn the corrective actions for each of those reasons. Learn key elements of a successful team and the hierarchy - what has to come first to build a foundation. If a solid foundation is not in place, nothing else you do will work. WHY SHOULD

Whether you are an office worker, a small business owner or just the casual user, knowing the advanced Excel features can be very important time savers and enhance your ability to create better performing spreadsheets. Our upcoming boot camp discusses the Excel advanced features that provide automation within the application and some must-have skills for Excel power users . The boot camp covers the following key areas: ·          Change the way data is calculated in a PivotTable ·          Learn many functions to manipulate text once imported including LEFT, RIGHT, LEN, TRIM and CONCATENATE ·          Learn the difference between workbook macros and personal macros ·          Learn many statistical functions including SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN and COUNT ·          Learn about slicers – the new visual way to filter PivotTables LEARNING OBJECTIVES This Microsoft Excel training session covers THREE advanced features of Excel that provide automation within the application

Compensation decisions that determine how to construct salary ranges, which employees will get pay increases and how much they deserve can make or break your business. Our upcoming webinar discusses how to use the salary budget for maximum effect on employee performance while still ensuring equity within internal and external components and avoiding compliance problems. The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          Current salary structures - understanding how the numbers got that way and what it means now ·          Connecting performance with pay and constructing individual incentive plans ·          How small or mid-sized businesses can have more flexibility with pay LEARNING OBJECTIVES It’s a fact of life that most people have to work for money. Even people who love their jobs likely would not perform them for free. To a company, the salary budget is its biggest expense. However to your employees, it’s a reward system for their work performed in your co

One to xic employee can damage the performance, morale and productivity of all the employees in the organization. Our upcoming webinar discusses techniques for dealing effectively with the toxic people in the workplace and how to create a culture of accountability. The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          Three factors you must consider to determine if the person is worth the energy required to save them ·          Preparing yourself so you’re likely to succeed in managing employees from hell ·          Respite for your conscience – why you shouldn’t beat yourself up for doing what’s right LEARNING OBJECTIVES It has been said that people are your greatest resource – and it’s true. Great organizations are made up of great people. It is also true, however, that: ·          One non-performer can lower the standards of performance for everyone ·          One bad actor can affect the morale of those around him ·          One disruptive character can m